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Postscript to Herschel's paper (PT/26/11) on photographic processes.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on vegetable colours, and on some new photographic processes'.

Written by Herschel in Collingwood [Kent, England].

Abstract of paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.

Reference number
PT/26/13
Earliest possible date
29 August 1842
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'Postscript' by John Frederick William Herschel, 29 August 1842, PT/26/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_26_13/paper-postscript-by-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 15 October 2024

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